Where are the migrant child facilities? Scattered across America

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President Trump has signed an executive order to halt the family separation process he created, but at least 2,500 children have already been taken from their parents and sent to shelters in at least 15 states. Some are as young as a few months old. Hundreds have been apart from distraught parents for several weeks. The system for reuniting these children with parents arrested for crossing the border illegally is chaotic, so the humanitarian crisis could persist for months.

Locations of facilities holding child migrants

Includes children separated from parents at the border and those who crossed unaccompanied but not those placed in foster care

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Across the United States, the federal government is responsible for the care of about 12,000 migrant children in about 100 shelters, which includes the 2,500 removed from their parents in the past five weeks. The rest are youngsters who came across the border alone. It’s a billion-dollar industry that has grown rapidly under the Trump administration’s push to close the border.

Entrance to Casa Padre, where as many as 1,400 boys are being housed. (Loren Elliott/Reuters)

Immigrant children walk in a line outside a Homestead, Fla. temporary shelter that was a Job Corps site, on June 20, 2018 (Brynn Anderson/AP)

In Texas, 32 licensed facilities shelter migrant children. Southwest Key is the largest operator in the state, housing almost 4,000 children as of mid-May in 17 facilities, according to the Texas Tribune. The nonprofit organization has grown apace with surges in Central American youth seeking refuge. So, too, has annual compensation for its chief executive, Juan Sanchez; IRS filings indicate he earned nearly $1.5 million in 2016.

Immigrant children in Texas shelters as of May 16

1,000

10

100

—Fort Worth

El Paso

TEXAS

San Antonio—

Houston

In mid-May, there were 1,006 children in the Casa Padre shelter in Brownsville. Today it is reported that there are more than 1,400.

June 19 satellite image of the Dept. of Health and Human Services tent city in Tornillo, Texas

NORTH

Car entry

U.S. Customs and

Border Protection

Tornillo Port of Entry

Primary detention

camp building

18 tent

shelters

10 tent

shelters

Secondary

detention

camp building

200 FEET

Satellite image provided by Planet Labs.

Immigrant children in Texas shelters as of May 16

1,000

10

100

—Fort Worth

8

El Paso

84—

—Tornillo, 73

TEXAS

—178

184—

San Antonio—

Houston

Corpus Christi

104

In mid-May, there were 1,006 children in the Casa Padre shelter in Brownsville. Today it is reported that there are more than 1,400.

June 19 satellite image of the Department of

Health and Human Services tent city in Tornillo, Texas

U.S. Customs and

Border Protection

Tornillo Port of Entry

Car

entry

Secondary detention

camp building

18 tent shelters

Primary detention

camp building

10 tent

shelters

To Mexico

200 FEET

Satellite image provided by Planet Labs.

The temporary tent city at Tornillo, east of El Paso, houses migrant children and had been expected to expand to receive youngsters forcibly separated from their families.

Inside Southwest Key’s Casa Padre shelter

The secretive shelter in Brownsville houses more than 1,400 immigrant boys, many who crossed the border by themselves and dozens who were separated from their parents when picked up by border agents, under the Trump administration’s “zero-tolerance” policy targeting illegal border crossings. The original capacity for the facility was 1186.

Reporting from The Washington Post, reports from Texas Tribune and other media outlets and government grants for shelter programs for Unaccompanied Alien Children, through the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Refugee Resettlement. June 19 satellite image provided by Planet Labs via Human Rights Watch. Casa Padre plans from the City of Brownsville, Tex.